Touques, Calvados

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Touques (French pronunciation: [tuk] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. It is situated on the river Touques, 3 km southeast of the sea resort Deauville.

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Touques
Commune
The church in Touques
Coat of arms
Location of Touques
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Coordinates: 49°20′36″N 0°06′10″E / 49.3433°N 0.1028°E / 49.3433; 0.1028
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Honfleur-Deauville
Intercommunality	CC Cœur Côte Fleurie
Government
• Mayor (2024–2026)	David Muller[1]
Area 1	8.13 km2 (3.14 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	3,857
• Density	470/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14699 /14800
Elevation	2–149 m (6.6–488.8 ft) (avg. 6 m or 20 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
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• Eliezer (ben Solomon) of Touques was a French tosafist, who lived at Touques in the second half of the thirteenth century. He abridged the tosafot of Samson of Sens, Samuel of Évreux, and many others, and added thereto marginal notes of his own, entitled "Gilyon Tosafot," or "Tosafot Gillayon".
• On 1 August 1417 Henry V of England, landed there.
• On 7 March 2021 Olivier Dassault crash landed on board a helicopter there.

Touques is twinned with:

• Sankt Andreasberg (Germany)
• Strathspey, Scotland

• Communes of the Calvados department

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